Suspender-buckle.



Patented Nov. I8, I902.

' W. E. FDOTE.

SUSPENDEB BUCKLE.

(Application filed Sept. 30, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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W'ALTER EDIVARD FOOTE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO H.G. SEDGEWICK, OF PARKRIDGE, ILLINOIS.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,625, dated November18, 1902.

Application filed September 30,1901. Serial No. 77,06l. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: of the webbing be passed from back to frontBeitknownthatLWALTEREDWARD FOOTE, downwardly into or through thispassage, be a citizen of the United States of America, and bent sharplyaround the upper ends of the a resident of Chicago, Cook county,Illinois, projections, carried downward behind the 5 have inventedcertain new and useful Imbuckle, doubled upon itself, passed fromprovements in Suspender-Buckles, of which front to rear through the slotO, carried the following is a specification. around the crenate edge ofthe rearwardly- The general object of my invention is to bent metal atthe upper side of the slot O and provide a simple, convenient, andinexpenthence upward, it will be securely held. The 1o sive buckle whichwill hold the webbing sesharp turns around the smooth margin of thecurely without injuring it. Many buckles slot and then around thecrenate edge are hold the webbing by means. of pointed or together amplysufficient to prevent slipping spur-like teeth, which enter the body ofthe at this pointby vertical tension on either the webbing; but suchbuckles injure the mateupwardly or downwardly extending portion, 6 5 I 5rial which they hold. Many others give the yet if those portions be bothswung from the indispensable security without such teeth, plate thewebbing is free to pass in either dibut are made up of articulatedparts. Others rection through the slot for purposes of adrequireattaching the webbing by sewing or justment. by means other than thebuckle itself or do The lower end of the webbing is not under 20 notprovide for easy adjustment. My detension, and were a slot like thatabove provices avoid all the objections to such buckles, vided it wouldnot be securely retained. The cost as little as the least expensive ofthem, radically different expedient described was are neat inappearance, and cannot be matetherefore adopted, it being bornein mindthat rially changed by any ordinary use. the end portion must not onlybe held se- 25 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view curely, butmust at the same time be easily of a pair of suspenders provided with myadjustable and not injured by the holding. buckles. Fig. 2 is a frontview of a detached By forming the long and broad rounded probuckle. Fig.3 shows the buckle in section jections and bending them oppositelybarely on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, the webbing being farenough to admit thewebbingalong nearly 30 shown in dotted lines. vertical passage isformed, so that when the The buckle is made from suitable flat metalwebbing is in place it bends through substanby dies, which give thedesired form. These tially one hundred and eighty degrees instead diescut a narrow slot O of a length equal to of ninety degrees or lessaround the rounded the width of the webbing to be used and havends ofthe lower projections, and obviously 35 ing its lower margin straightand its upper no amount of tension such as occurs in use margin crenateor wavy and bent rearward can cause slipping, the tension beingpractifrom the plane of the plate. Below this slot cally parallel to theplane of the projections the dies cut through the metal in a crooked onone side and the webbing being held fiat preferably deeply serpentineline whose genagainst the opposite side of the projections o eraldirection is parallel to the slot, thus by the downwardly-extendingprojections of forming rounded down wardly-extending prothe other set,which have no other oflice and jections T, preferably bent into anoblique in no sense serve as teeth. While the webplane andalternatingwith like upwardlybing is thus held securely, it may beadjusted extending projections L, rearwardly bent by slipping in eitherdirection if its rear fold 5 45 into a parallel plane. The oppositebending be swung from the plate and drawn in the is such that betweenthe planes of the two direction of the long passage between the two setsof projections there is a nearly-vertical sets of projections. passageapproximately equal in width to the It is to be observed that, as shown,the webthickness of the webbing to be used and exbing is held withoutthe aid of any points or rco so tending downwardly from the rear side ofthe spurs to enter it or to catch any thread thereof, r plate to thefront side. It now the free end that there are no articulated parts,that two folds of the webbing are not passed through the same opening,that the body of the webbing is not wound over the free end in suchmanner as to make access thereto difficult, but that the complete buckleis almost a flat piece of metal holding the Webbing perfectly and beingas neat in appearance and as convenient in adjusting as more complexstructures.

What I claim is- A one-piece buckle consisting of a plate out through ina crooked line extending to neither margin and having the set of upwardprojections so formed bent rearwardly into a slightly W'ALTER EDYVARDFOOTE.

\Vitnesses:

W. E. WILLIAMS, 0. SNYDER.

